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Recalling America’s pre-Civil War struggle with slavery

On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a new cemetery on the site of the bloody Civil War battlefield.
The life story of a Virginian man born into slavery more than 200 years ago was found at the Stowe Center in Hartford. Hundreds of documents and artifacts are kept at the Stowe Literary Center for ...